Need some legal pot in a hurry? We just spotted this medical marijuana vending machine on BoingBoing. They quote Thrillist on the details:After cinching up your doctor's consultation, hit an AVM location to get your prescription approved, fingerprint taken, and a prepaid credit card loaded with your profile: dosage (3.5 or 7 grams, up to 1oz a week) and strain preference (choice of five, including OG Cush and Granddaddy Purple, the mildly hallucinogenic forebear to Prince). Then day or night, all you do is hit a machine and walk away with enough vacuum-sealed, plastic-encapsulated cheeba to adequately treat your illness.
They're thinking about adding Vicodin and other medications to the machine. May we suggest dry martinis and dark chocolate? Unfortunately, our drugs of choice are unlikely to be available from the Herbal Nutrition Center, the organization that stocks the machine's pot - and which, by the way, has the smoooothest background track of any medical website ever.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. i can see where this is going...
"man robbed at gunpoint at pot machine"
hannah at 4:38PM on Feb 12th 2008
2. Only in LA could something like this happen
sirena at 6:31PM on Feb 12th 2008
3. hannah ....how about his one?.....supplier of pot machine robbed at gunpoint...or truck crashes into pot machine and dashes....
Pops at 7:02PM on Feb 12th 2008
4. I bet alot of pot dealers are pissed off right now.
David McCool at 8:02PM on Feb 12th 2008
5. I'm not sure a vending machine is the place, but why not decriminalize marijuana?
mac at 9:12PM on Feb 12th 2008
6. I like the music!
On another note, though I don't smoke marijuana, I do think it should be completely decriminalized.
Amanda at 9:36PM on Feb 12th 2008
7. Is there a sign posted
"Pot Smoking can be Dangerous to your Health"
20 times more potent than smoking cigarettes at causing LUNG CANCER.
ROBERT OKANE at 11:22AM on Feb 13th 2008
8. Robert Okane, you're an idiot. I don't smoke pot. Or even cigarettes. I am as straight edge as it gets for a mother of 3. However, even I know that marijuana does NOT cause long cancer. No links at all. Do some research before posting.
"The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer."
The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."
Mrs. Kreiser at 12:10PM on Feb 13th 2008
9. "Pot Smoking can be Dangerous to your Health"
20 times more potent than smoking cigarettes at causing LUNG CANCER.
ROBERT OKANE at 11:22AM on Feb 13th 2008
Very good Robert. Now explain to me, how is this any of your business
tmcneil at 12:12PM on Feb 13th 2008
10. 2. Only in LA could something like this happen
sirena at 6:31PM on Feb 12th 2008
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oh, they'd put one up in Alabama but the ten commandments would have to be painted on the front or at least a confederate flag. if the proceed funded the discovery institute, no contest.
I wonder if they have plans for a white one that makes noises like Paul Harvey reading homer simpson and dispenses oxycontin. It could come with a peaked tarp and eyeball cutouts even.
Clif Kuplen at 4:33PM on Feb 13th 2008
11. They better make the machines bullet-proof. So all the people who "aren't addicted" won't be tempted.
Strados at 11:29AM on Feb 14th 2008